# S1E21 - Tooms; or, Skinner Keeps the Glasses On

An episode of [Gen X-Files: a Rewatch Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1895719549), 22 Sep 2026, 1 h 45 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/10d929ad8/podcast/play/126079996/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-21%2F36de545b-f9b3-e478-02ee-a5499d9aae26.mp3

Eugene Victor Tooms is back, he’s hungry for liver, and somehow he’s not even the weirdest thing we talk about this week. Dash and Melz (longtime fans and couple) and Angel (first-time watcher and Dash’s mom) are digging into “Tooms,” the episode that gives us the return of our favorite stretchy yellow-eyed sewer freak, the arrival of Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and the Cigarette Smoking Man lurking silently in the corner like tobacco-scented bad news. Meanwhile, Angel predicts “alien pimples that have men hiding in them,” Mulder finds a genuine secret mall apartment, Scully likes Mulder enough to make him a sandwich, and we try to figure out how a man who should be approximately 900 years old was still working as a sheriff. Also: a childhood encounter with a horrifyingly flat rat, the Roto-Rooter Tooms Trapper, Skinner sex logistics, whether Tooms goos when he goons, and the important realization that nothing makes sense and Scully writes it down. Plus, Angel gives Cigarette Smoking Man a prognosis that’s hard to argue with. If you’re reading this, you’re a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions? Drop us a line at GenXFilesPod@gmail.com, or follow us on Twitter @GenXFilesPod

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